Mass provisioning is a form of parental investment in which an adult insect, most commonly a hymenopteran such as a bee or wasp, stocks all the food for each of her offspring in a small chamber before she lays the egg. This behavior is common in both solitary and eusocial bees, though essentially absent in eusocial wasps.
Callicera is a Holarctic genus of hoverflies
Xylosteus spinolae is the species of the Lepturinae subfamily in long-horned beetle family. This beetle is distributed in Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and Turkey. Adult beetle feeds on flowers of common filbert, and common beech.
Anthidium gayi is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae, the leaf-cutter, carder, or mason bees.
Chalybion is a genus of blue mud dauber wasps in the family Sphecidae. Chalybion species nest in a wide range of natural and artificial cavities such as holes in wood, walls, plant stems, etc., where they typically provision their brood cells with paralyzed spiders. They also reuse old nests of other wasps like Trypoxylon and Sceliphron.
Apolygus lucorum is a species of true bug in the Miridae family. It can be found everywhere in Europe except for Albania, Bulgaria, Iceland, Malta, and Portugal. and much of the Mediterranean basin, then east across the Palearctic to China and Japan.
Carabus spinolae is a species of black-coloured beetle in the family Carabidae that is endemic to Turkey.
Iberodorcadion spinolae is a species of longhorned beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It is found in Spain.
Pyrops spinolae is a species of planthopper sometimes referred-to as the dark-horned lantern-fly. The species is named after Maximilian Spinola, the authority for the genus.
Pison spinolae, commonly known as mason wasp, is a solitary wasp of the family Crabronidae, found throughout New Zealand.
Melanaethus is a genus of burrowing bugs in the family Cydnidae. There are about 15 described species in Melanaethus.
Bembix americana is a species of sand wasp in the family Crabronidae. It is found in the Caribbean Sea, Central America, North America, and South America.
Chrysis ruddii, the ruby-tailed wasp, is a species of cuckoo wasps, an insects in the family Chrysididae.
Trichrysis cyanea is a species of cuckoo wasps, insects in the family Chrysididae.
Ancistrocerus antilope is a species of wasp of the family Vespidae.
Apolygus is a genus of true bugs belonging to the family Miridae.
Monophadnus is a genus of sawflies belonging to the family Tenthredinidae.
Callicera spinolae, also known as the ivy hoverfly or golden hoverfly, is a species of syrphid fly within the genus Callicera and family Syrphidae. It was first described by Italian entomologist Camillo Rondani in 1844.
Pison morosum is a solitary wasp of the family Crabronidae. It is the only endemic species of Pison wasp to New Zealand. It was first described by entomologist Frederick Smith in 1858.
